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Moyers & Company"Big Money, Big Media, Big Trouble"
Big money and big media have coupled to create a 'Disney World' of democracy in which TV shows, televised debates, even news coverage is being dumbed down, just as the volume is being turned up. The result is a public certainly more entertained, but less informed and personally involved than they should be, says Marty Kaplan, director of USC's Norman Lear Center and an entertainment industry veteran. This weekend, in an encore broadcast of on Moyers & Company (check local listings), Bill Moyers talks with Kaplan about how taking news out of the journalism box and placing it in the entertainment box is hurting democracy and allowing special interest groups to manipulate the system. D

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RAY SUAREZ ANCHORS. "International Justice" - The show explores how to prevent genocide and how to punish those behind it. It features a report from Cambodia, where former leaders of the Khmer Rouge are being tried for the mass murders committed there decades ago. D